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Life — January 4, 1923 — page 30: Life, 1923-01-04

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This page from Life magazine presents a crowded numbered cartoon map identifying 78 prominent American figures from the early 1920s at what the text calls "LIFE Entertains a Few Friends and Members of the Immediate Family." The cartoon satirizes the magazine's access to and relationship with America's cultural, political, and entertainment elite. The numbered bubbles contain caricatures of everyone from President Harding and Vice President Coolidge to Babe Ruth, Charlie Chaplin, and Elinor Glyn. The satire works on multiple levels: Life presents itself as intimate with the powerful, while the sheer quantity of names (78!) and the jumbled composition suggest both the magazine's broad reach and gentle mockery of celebrity culture itself. The bottom cartoon depicts a "Volstead Inspector" approving removal of a "Mamma doll"—likely referencing Prohibition enforcement and jazz-age irreverence. The page essentially serves as Life's visual boast of its cultural influence and access during the Roaring Twenties.

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LIFE Entertains a Few Friends and Members of the Immediate Family 1—SENATOR WILLIAM E. BORAH of Idaho; 2—MASTER JACKIE COOGAN of Hollywood; 3—sECRETARY OF STATE CHARLES E. HUGHES ; 4—VICE-PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE; 6—THE CHIEF EXECU- TIVE and—5—MR. HARDING; 7—SENATOR HENRY CABOT LODGE of Massachusetts; 8—eLIHU Root, free-lance conference delegate; 9—CHIEF JUSTICE WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. 10—MAyoR JOHN F. HYLAN of New York; 11—FReDERICK MACMONNIES, the favorite Mayor’s sculptor; 12—RosE O'NEILL, sculptor of the kewpies; 13— WILL ROGERS, vaquero of the Follies; 14—mRks. OLIVER H. P. BELMONT of the National Woman's Part: 15—jJoun DREW of the Drews; 16—WALTER CAMP of the Daily Dozen; 17—pouGLas FAIRBANKS of the Gruelling Gross; 18—MRS. MINNIE MADDERN FISKE of the American Stage; 19—RING LARDNER of the American Language ; 20—CHAUNCEY M. pepew of the American Dinner- table; 21—ARTHUR BRISBANE of the Evening Journal; 22—sENATOR OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD of Alabama. 23—JAMES BRANCH CABELL; 24—JOHN S. SUMNER; 25—BEN HECHT of the Chicago literary outpost; 26 —WILBUR GLENN VOLIVA, Dowie’s suc- cessor in Zion City; 27—ELINOR GLYN, author of “Three Weeks” ; 23—AanpREW VOLSTEAD, fiction writer, author of the Eighteenth Amendment; 29—pon MArR- guts, author of the “The Old Soak”; 30—WILLIAM H. ANDERSON, superinten- dent of the Anti-Saloon League; 31— JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER, author of “Cytherea” ; 32—pr. JOHN ROACH STRAT- ON, arch-enemy of Jazz; 33—pauL WHITEMAN, archduke of Jazz; 34—wiL- LIAM JENNINGS BRYAN of Nebraska; 35 —GERTRUDE STEIN, vers-librist ; 36—ED- WIN MARKHAM, author of “The Man with the Hoe”; 37—1RvING BERLIN of Alexander's Ragtime Band; 38—mary GARDEN of the Chicago Opera; 39— BABE RUTH of the New York Yankees; 40—ALLA Naztmova, the Salomé of the movies; and 41—(though not on a silver charger) the head of Joe CANNON. 42—cIULIO GATTI-CasAzzA of the Metropolitan Opera; 43—Morris GEST, impresario of the Chauve-Souris; 44— DAVID BELASCO, collector of objets d'art ; 45—B. F. PROVANDIE, LIFE’S West- ern scout; 46—HENRY WILLIAM _HANE- MANN, LIFE’s interpreter of English into New Yorkese; 47—RoBERT C. BEN- CHLEY, LIFE’s dramatic critic; 48—RoB- ERT E, SHERWOOD, LIFE’S cinematograph- ic expert; 49—EDWARD Ss. MARTIN, LiFe’s editorial writer; | 50—ars. CHARLES DANA GIBSON, Mrs. LIFE; S51— LIFE HIMSELF drinking to everybody's good health; 52—CHARLES DANA GIBSON of the Gibson Girl; 53—LouIs EVAN SHIPMAN, LIFE’s editor; 54—FRANK DE- SALES CASEY, LIFE’S art-editor; S5— OLIVER HERSORD, LIFE’S caricature, coup- let and cat adviser; 56—LEROY MILLER, are’s business man; 57—CHARLES SYKES, LIFE’S cartoonist; 58—BarRD LEONARD, LIFE’s Mrs. Peps; 59—THOMAS ALVA EDISON, responsible for the phono- graph. 61—JUDGE KENESAW MOUNTAIN LAN- pis, bashaw of baseball; 62—jouHN bp. ROCKEFELLER—gas 28c; 63—CHARLES SPENCER CHAPLIN, a motion picture ac- tor; 64--J. PIERPONT MORGAN, pawnbrok- er by appointment to the crowned heads of Europe; 65—pAvID WARK GRIFFITH the Michelangelo of the movies; 66— JACK DEMPSEY, fisticuffer extraordinary ; 67—ETHEL BARRYMORE of the Three Barrymores; 68—WILL HAYS, mahara- jah of the movies; 69—GOVERNOR AL SMITH of New York; 70—RICHARD LE GALLIENNE; 71—THEODORE of ry’s, world’s champion maitre d’héi 72—OTT0 KAHN, the artist’s angel ; 7. LUTHER BURBANK, inventor of fruit —MRS. LESLIE CARTER, the great Zaza; 75 —GEORGE BAKER, the banker ; 76—HENRY ForD, populator of highways; 77—stn- CLAIR LEWis of Gopher Prairie; 78— SAMUEL GOMPERS, the laureate of labor ; 79—CHARLES SCHWAB of Bethlehem; 80—BoARDMAN ROBINSON of the race of artists; 81—JUDGE ELBERT H. GARY of the U. S. Steel Corporation ; 82—1GN act JAN PADEREWSKI, pianoforte virtuoso; 83—WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE of Emporia Kansas; 84—sSHERWOOD ANDERSON, au thor of “Tha Triumph of the Egg” ; 85— CLARE KUMMER, author of “A Success- ful Calamity”; 86—EUGENE 0’NEILL of the wharves and sand-dunes; 87— MAUDE ADAMS, alias Peter Pan; S8— DR. FRANK CRANE, the people’s philoso- pher; 89—mrs. w, K. VANDERBILT of the Vanderbilts ; 90—woopRow wILson, historian; 91—1IDA M. TARBELL, a won an’s woman; 92—irviIN coBB, humorist and matinée idol; 93—Mmary PICKFoRD, the permanent movie actress; 94— FKANK CROWNINSHIELD, editor of Van- ity Fair. 95—epwarp BoK, Americanized editor of The Ladies’ Home Journal ; 96—GEoRGE PALMER PUTMAN, the publisher; 97— CONDE NAST, publisher of logue, Vanity Fair, etc.; 98—EDITH WHARTON, the novelist; 99—BooTH TARKI x, the other novelist; 100—LEE sHuBeERT of the Shuberts; 101—cEorcE ane, philologist ; 102—JoHN BARRYMORE bursting Booth’s shoes; 103—cLARENCE MACKAY of the Postal Telegraph; 104—MARGARET AN tn, Euripides’ favorite actress; 105— HENRY BLACKMAN SELL, editor of Har- ber’s Bazar; 106—HENRY MILLER from the great divide ; 107—pANIEL FROHMAN of Mr. Frohman’s office; 108—FRANcIS witson when knights were bold; 109— AUGUSTUS THOMAS, the sultan of the stage; 110—GEorGE BELLows, the ring- side lithographer ; 111—vicToR HERBERT, the composer; 112—FINLEY PETER DUNNE, Mr. Dooley. Volstead Inspector: Oh, a doll; pass on. “Not a bad idea, taking the works out of that Mamma doll” comicbooks.com